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Title: Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected biography. A.N. Waterman ... ed. and author of Historical review
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Waterman, Arba N. (Arba Nelson), 1836-1917
Subjects: Chicago (Ill.) -- History Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography Cook County (Ill.) -- History Cook County (Ill.) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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received a thorough literary train-ing in the Albany (N. Y.) Academy and the St. Lawrence Universityof New York. Graduating from the latter, in 1861, he took up hislaw studies in various offices at Canton and New York City, and in1867 was admitted to practice before the bar of New York state. From 1867 until 1871 Mr. Ferry was engaged in professionallabors at St. Lawrence, New York, and during that period servedas special county judge for two years, under appointment fromGovernor Hoffman. In 1871 he removed to Kansas City, Missouri,and resumed his practice there, but during the quarter of a centuryof his residence in the western city he came into considerable prom-inence as a public functionary. From 1883 to 1884 he served as amember qf the general assembly - from Kansas City, was police com-missioner from 1884 to 1890, and subsequently became a memberof the military staff of Governor Marmaduke. While practicing in THE NEW YOllKPUBLIC LlBllAllY AffTOR, LEWIX ASPTILDEN FOUNDATIONS B ^
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CHICAGO AND COOK COUNTY 781 Kansas City he had as a law partner the late TTon. George W.McCrary, formerly a member of Congress from Iowa, secretary ofwar under President Hayes, later United States circuit judge, anda commanding figure of national prominence, who died in 1891. Mr. Ferry located in Chicago in 1896, and since that time hispractice has been mainly along lines of corporation law. In additionto his private practice, he has been connected in a semi-official capacitywith much litigation for the Chicago City Railway Company. In politics Mr. Ferry has always been an aggressive Democrat. Heis an Episcopalian and since coming to Chicago has been an activemember of the St. Pauls Fpiscopal church. He is also identified withthe Chicago, Washington Park and South Shore Country clubs, beingboth of a social disposition and a firm believer in the efficacy of anindulgence in outdoor recreation. For sixteen years one of the most prominent practitioners at theMinnesota bar and since 1898 r

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